The National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA) has compiled the following words about coronavirus (also called COVID-19) with plain English explanations. We hear many of these words everyday on the news, radio, TV and online. We list words from A-Z.
The words and definitions are taken and adapted from:
- the Health Service Executive (HSE),
- World Health Organisation (WHO),
- newspapers, TV and radio such as RTÉ news, glossary of terms in Time magazine,
- Health Protection and Surveillance Centre (HPSC) A to Z list, and
- dictionaries – Merriam-Webster have added new words to their dictionary.